And a good one, it is:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/r ... t_The_Hits
Pitchfork PopArt review
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fluffmoln
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VinnyM27
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Very knowledgable. I like the idea of "Discopgraphy" being the dance pop equivelent of Marley's "Legend", which in the US, is on of the most consistent selling album of all time. I read an interesting story on it recently in Blender (or possibly another magazine). Even though it took waay too long to get here, I have an idea that PopArt might possibly replace "Discography" as the one album that from PSB that most places sell. Might be a big seller overtime, too. It's certainly not going to crash the charts or anything next week, but I assume Capital is hoping for an album that sells it copies in a matter of years, not weeks.
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Hm. Great review. On one hand, I should be surprised that Pitchfork gave such a good review to this, after trashing Fundamental. Although Pitchfork is generally quite resepcted, when it comes to pop, Pitchfork usually plays it safe with their reviews. In that sense, PopArt would obviously be a good album, and even be seen as lightly subversive, but at the same time, Fundamental would be bad because it's pop act has-beens trying to outlive their glory. Clearly, the reviewer's interpretation of the pre-Very misses the complexity of the earlier albums--and this works for PopArt's benefit in the review, if that makes sense.
I have the French import of PopArtMix--I live in the US--and probably won't buy the US version. It seems to me that an American aesthetic of PopArt should focus on the tracks from the later period that do show wane, such as Somewhere (sorry, Somewhere fans), instead of To Step Aside, which was a single in the US. Nearly any other pop act would be stretching it to come up with enough tracks to qualify as "art," but it seems to me that, especially regarding "Art," a single CD would only scratch the surface. But perhaps this is more of a criticism of PopArt being a singles collection rather than a "best of' collection.
I have the French import of PopArtMix--I live in the US--and probably won't buy the US version. It seems to me that an American aesthetic of PopArt should focus on the tracks from the later period that do show wane, such as Somewhere (sorry, Somewhere fans), instead of To Step Aside, which was a single in the US. Nearly any other pop act would be stretching it to come up with enough tracks to qualify as "art," but it seems to me that, especially regarding "Art," a single CD would only scratch the surface. But perhaps this is more of a criticism of PopArt being a singles collection rather than a "best of' collection.